What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Nordicdusk]

Originally Posted by J Harker

Ooh thanks Nord, i didn't realise that. Dunno why, sure I'd read somewhere some of the films were locked.

I think the special features DVD is region locked the Blu Rays are region free.

[J Harker]

Cool my blu player plays region 1 dvds. Not blu rays though.

[Nordicdusk]

Originally Posted by J Harker

Cool my blu player plays region 1 dvds. Not blu rays though.

They were made for each other

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Nordicdusk

They were made for each other

Sorry not region A blus!

[Nordicdusk]

Originally Posted by J Harker

Sorry not region A blus!

It will play the region free blu rays an the region 1 DVD so you will be able to rnjoy the whole set.

[Rik]

Oculus: another film (like the Babadook) that had come highly recommended from online hype and reviews that was a major letdown.
Think I'll stick to Poundland specials, at least they're so bad they're good!
5/10

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

And i'm enjoying reading the fruits of your efforts.

As am I.

Great review of Angst by the way, Frankie. It's a film that has a strange duality to it what with being visceral and mean yet also contemplative and almost serene in how it utilises various cinematic effect to peer into the life of our atagonist when he is not viciously killing or raping. As you pointed out, there is also a bizarre vein of comedy running beneath the surface of the proceedings and like you, despite the despair Angst exhumes, I also find it to be not as bleak a film overall as it would first appear on paper. It's also one that I really need to revisit soon hopefully in the form of the upcoming Cult Epics Blu-ray (released August this year I believe).

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Rik

Oculus: another film (like the Babadook) that had come highly recommended from online hype and reviews that was a major letdown.
Think I'll stick to Poundland specials, at least they're so bad they're good!
5/10

I recently watched Oculus and actually enjoyed it quite a bit more than I thought I would - I do enjoy a bit of supernatural/demonic mind-****ery though. Still, I do find that a lot of these type of films rarely live up to their potential so my initial bar is more often than not set fairly low.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop

But then again, I don't find 'Combat Shock' to be all that bleak either. Yeah the events it shows are, objectively, depressing on any human level, but it just doesn't get there atmospherically. Like, having a really crummy eighties synth tune bouncing away in the background during that bit with the dole queue. Things like that I find a bit undermining. I'm being picky and / or desensitised. I do really rate 'Combat Shock' actually. But again, I tend to respond to atmosphere a lot more than I do narrative events, if that makes sense? So conversely there are loads of films which aren't particularly harrowing in terms of the events they show or the stories they tell, but which really get under my skin.

I know what you mean about the competency of the film making undermining the on-screen events that, at least for me, it is unrelentingly bleak and downbeat with some genuinely shocking moments – particularly at the end. However, as you pointed out, the strange score and technical shortcomings undermine the overall effect.

[Rik]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

I recently watched Oculus and actually enjoyed it quite a bit more than I thought I would - I do enjoy a bit of supernatural/demonic mind-****ery though. Still, I do find that a lot of these type of films rarely live up to their potential so my initial bar is more often than not set fairly low.

I went in knowing little about it, apart from the fact that it was really good and really scary, neither of which it lived up to IMO. It's well made and everything, but it just lacked something for me and didn't stand up against films like Insidious, The Conjuring and Sinister, which I really like.